MES DevOps Lead - CI/CD, IaC & Regulated Deployments
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Limerick, Ireland
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Lead
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Proven experience as a DevOps Lead or Senior DevOps Engineer delivering complex enterprise software programmes.
- Hands-on software development background with a strong understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and modern DevOps practices.
- Strong expertise in CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, automation, and scripting using tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Bash, and Python.
- Experience managing enterprise application environments, including release management, configuration management, and infrastructure provisioning.
- Strong experience supporting MES platforms, ideally Emerson Syncade, including deployment, configuration, upgrades, and operational support.
- Experience working within regulated pharmaceutical or life sciences environments, with knowledge of GxP, Computer System Validation (CSV), GAMP 5, and validation practices.
- Good understanding of MES integrations with SAP, LIMS, historian systems, and containerisation technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work in a hybrid model, with three days per week based on-site in Limerick and two days working remotely.
Full description
SimoTech provides manufacturing automation and IT systemsengineering, project management and validation services. We partner with lifesciences companies to design, build, operate and optimise critical processautomation systems that deliver fast track project delivery, operationalefficiency, improve manufacturing agility and achieve regulatory compliance.
Why SimoTech
What is it like to work at SimoTech? With a strongcollaborative teamwork culture based on respect, trust and excellence, we playa critical partnering role to our clients’ life-changing supply of products topatients. In return, there is excellent salary, benefits, career progression,educational support and much more.
SimoTech has a new opportunity for an DevOps Lead Engineer tojoin our team, supporting a large-scale greenfield implementation for a state-of-the-artbiotech manufacturing campus on site in Limerick, Ireland.
Working closely with development, operations and QA teamsyour core responsibility will be to successfully design, configure, andmaintainMES CI/CDpipelines to support reliable and repeatable MES deployments. As DevOpsLead Engineer you will take ownership of MES standards, applications/tools, andthe MES environment, forming the basis of the MES program.
The ideal candidate will have proven experience as a Leador Senior DevOps Engineer with experience deploying configuration changesacross development, test andlive production environments. This includes experience using version controlfor MES configuration, expertise in CI/CD pipelines, andsupporting automated testing.
KeyResponsibilities
- Develop, own, and evolve the DevOps strategy, defining the toolchain, automation approach, and ways of working that support secure, scalable, and efficient software delivery across the MES programme.
- Design, implement, and optimise CI/CD pipelines to enable consistent, reliable, and repeatable deployments across development, test, and production environments.
- Own the DevOps toolchain and environment lifecycle, including source control, infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, release management, version control, monitoring, and observability.
- Lead the provisioning and management of secure, resilient, and scalable infrastructure supporting MES platforms, ensuring high availability, performance, and operational stability.
- Manage and support MES platforms, ideally Emerson Syncade, including deployments, configuration, patching, upgrades, environment management, and ongoing operational support.
- Define and enforce development standards, branching strategies, code review practices, release governance, and change control processes aligned with regulated manufacturing environments.